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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



670 words match “BOW”

PASSAGE n.
A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
PAST prep.
Above; exceeding; more than. [R.] Not past three quarters of a mile. Shak. Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. Spenser.
PAUNCH v.
To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.
PEAK n.
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
PEBBLE n.
A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.
PEN n.
A female swan. [Prov. Eng.] Bow pen. See Bow-pen. -- Dotting pen, a pen for drawing dotted lines. -- Drawing, or Ruling, pen, a pen for ruling lines having a pair of blades between which the ink is contained. -- Fountain pen, Geometric pen. See under Fountain, and Geometric. -- Music pen, a pen having five points f…
PERGOLA n.
Lit., an arbor or bower; specif.: (Italian art)
PETIT a.
e of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of killing a person to whom the offender owed duty or subjection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished…
PHANTASMATOGRAPHY n.
A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.
PILLOW n.
A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
PINION v.
rain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak. Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper.
PIPE n. 2 definitions
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
PIPEWOOD n.
us shrub (Leucothoë acuminata) of the southern United States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.
PITCH n.
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
PIZZICATO n.
A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
PLEACH v.
To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.
PLUME v.
d adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. W. Irving.
POLAR a.
sides of a given triangle. See 4th Pole, 2. -- Polar whale (Zoöl.), the right whale, or bowhead. See Whale.
POLITE a.
d in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope.
POLYTOMY n.
A division into many members. F. Bowen.
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